Robert Simpson
Managing DirectorRobert's background covers some 12 years managing a telecommunication company. Having spent a number of months developing his innovation, and putting in place the necessary preperation needed for patent protection, decided to form a company to undertake these roles. That company being RDS Innovations Limited.
Alasdair Perrin
Project Co-ordinatorAlasdair was brought into the company after completing his degree in computer systems engineering at the University of East Anglia, Norwich. His introduction was based on his final year major project which was, set by RDS Innovations, to develop, with two others, the first prototype "Safe & Sound" control component.
RDS Innovations - The Concept
It was whilst watching an episode of a UK Police drama. The scene depicted an elderly lady answering a call at her front door, she put the security chain in place, as all crime prevention handbooks tell you to do, and opened the door, with one swift kick the chains fixings were ripped from the frame and the caller became an intruder.
It was at this point I realised how ineffective the everyday security chain/bar was and I started to think of a more efficient and effective system, over the next few weeks, numerous sketches, drawings and written accounts on how the system should function and with the help of a friend who happens to be an alarm engineer, The Simpson Security System was born.
I established R.D.S. Innovations in May 2000, 2 years after the initial idea was conceived. Being a company has enabled us to raise funding in a legal and professional way so to create reference designs, virtual animations, prototypes and to promote the device to industry and more importantly to see all relevant patent charges to include renewals are serviced so to retain the Intellectual Property Rights on a global scale.
During the development process of establishing a forensic trace evacuation method for The Simpson Security System I was made aware of an organisation who manufactures and markets handheld personal attack alarms, one of these alarms having the ability not only to sound a high decibel alarm but at the same time spray a UV based forensic marker.
On closer inspection I realised that if this handheld device was encumbered into a static environment and installed at an entry point around the home and when in use only suppressed when an attempt to gain unlawful entry was made this device could be included into a range of products designed to ease the fear associated with residential burglary but at the same time if maliciously activated assist the Police in the identification of the individuals who perpetrate such criminal acts! Chain Reaction DNA was born!
I believe the certainty of being sprayed with a UV based identifiable forensic marker will be seen by today's criminals as the ultimate deterrent because when they activate these unique door security devices their embedded forensic trace technologies links the criminal to their crime scenes and the evidence can aid in the prosecution of offenders in a court of law.
Robert Simpson